[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 Released!

[Timothy Hart]

Eric you are the man. Really, I speak for us all when I say THANK YOU FOR
YOUR HARD WORK. You are helping so many of us.

Tim Hart
Glenburn School District, Maine.

On 8/7/06, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
>
> Come one, come all! Come get your shiny new bits and bytes!
>
> K12LTSP version 5.0 is now available for your downloading pleasure.
>
>
> Pentium/Xeon/Athlon/etc 32bit version:
>
>      http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/5.0.0-32bit/iso/
>      ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-32bit/iso/
>      rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-32bit/ .
>
>
> Opteron/EM64T/etc 64bit version:
>
>     http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/5.0.0-64bit/iso/
>     ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-64bit/iso/
>     rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-64bit/ .
>
>
>
> K12LTSP 5.0 is based on Fedora Core 5, which includes all sorts of
> new stuff. Of primary interest to K12LTSP users:
>
>      * This release of Fedora includes Mono support for the first time,
>        and Mono applications such as Beagle, a desktop search interface;
>        F-Spot, a photo management utility; and Tomboy, a note-taking
>        application.
>
>      * There is dramatically improved internationalization support with
>        SCIM in Fedora Core 5. The SCIM language input framework provides
>        an easy to use interface for inputting many different non-English
>        languages.
>
>      * For all of the dirty-details, see the full release notes at:
>        http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/release-notes-ISO/
>
> K12LTSP includes LTSP version 4.2. LTSP-4.2 offers lots of great
> improvements, including:
>
>      * Redesigned local device support based on ltspfs and lbus.
> Currently,
>        USB Memory sticks, USB CDRom, IDE CDrom and floppy drives are
>        supported. With local devices enabled, when you insert a memory
>        stick or a CDRom, an Icon appears on the desktop that is
> browseable.
>        Remove the memory stick or CDrom, and the icon disappears.
>
>      * We've reduced the amount of memory needed on a thin client by
>        about 7mb. This is really significant for low-memory machines.
>
>      * Updated to the 2.6.16.1 kernel.
>
>      * Swap over NBD. We've used NFS-Swap in the past, but that's not
>        available in the 2.6.x series kernels. We wrote a new ltspswapd
>        daemon that runs on the server, to provide NBD swapfile management.
>
>      * udev has completely replaced devfs. This causes a significant
>        speedup in the boot time, and better hotplug capabilities for
>        local devices.
>
>      * SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is now included in LTSP, so you
>        can plug scanners into the thin clients, and access them from
>        anywhere on the network.
>
>      * Multi-head X - The ability to have multiple video cards and
>        multiple monitors connected to a single thin client. Very handy
>        for extreme programming, where you just need more space to open
>        up more windows.
>
>      * Faster client booting. We've really made some great progress here.
>        By switching from devfs to udev, and by making lots of improvements
>        to the startup scripts, we've decreased the boot time dramatically.
>        On our test workstations (LTSP T-170's from
> DisklessWorkstations.com),
>        we've gotten the boot time down to 22 seconds! That's 22 seconds
> from
>        pressing the power button, to having a graphical login screen.
>        THAT is fast.
>
>      * VNC module that can be used by Fl_Teachertool to Monitor or
>        Control a thin client. Note that is disabled by default. To enable
>        this feature, you must do the following:
>
>
>        1) Edit the file /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf and uncomment
>           (remove the "#") from the following line:
>
>                   X4_MODULE_02 = vnc
>
>        2) Now you'll have to make a password for the vnc-session. Run this
>           command as root:
>
>                  /usr/bin/vncpasswd
>
>        3) Copy the password file into the ltsp-tree
>
>                 cp -R -p /root/.vnc /opt/ltsp/i386/root/
>
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